February 2012
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WatchValentine’s Day meant little to me for a long time. There was a period in high school in which I rebelled against it, wore black when everyone around me was receiving candy grams from crushes and flowers from parents. My parents weren’t those kind of parents. We didn’t require flowers. Then I became rather indifferent. It was nice for the people who liked it but I got nothing...
January 2012
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“I am trying to get to the bottom of our last, basic, desperate questions and the...”
– Barry Hannah
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"A long sentence is worth the read..." →
“But the promise of the long sentence is that it will take you beyond the known, far from shore, into depths and mysteries you can’t get your mind, or most of your words, around.” (Click above for full article.)
I tried Twitter and have all but given up on it. I get it when reading the news or receiving notifications from literary journals or when it points to other books or...
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“Everything you need to learn about writing you will learn, and can only learn,...”
– -David Mitchell
Everyone seems to have a different take on this subject. I like thinking about all of them.
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“The artist, like the God of the Creation, remains within or behind or beyond or...”
– James Joyce
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May 2011
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